NDD ( nature deficit disorder ) Acrylic on paper, stencil works. 19x27 inches, edition of 11. To be seen at Papier 2012. April 2012. Montréal.
http://www.papiermontreal.com/welcome-to-the-papier12-art-fair/
NDD ( nature deficit disorder ) Acrylic on paper, stencil works. 19x27 inches, edition of 11. To be seen at Papier 2012. April 2012. Montréal.
http://www.papiermontreal.com/welcome-to-the-papier12-art-fair/
MONASTIRAKI - Le Petit Monastere
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La chaleur imaginée, huile sur toile, 36x48, 2011
They could be weirdo film stills or parts of an ongoing narrative to which you have only limited access. The high vantage point and flat perspective make you feel privy to a possibly infinite perception, while at the same time, you know there lies “more to it”; like you have Magic Google Street View, but you will never totally know the complete story behind X; beginning, middle or end.
The unEdenic imagery used in this series (and most of his paintings to date) lends to the notion of a broken or unidentifiable narrative. The salacious easily imparts the voyeuristic, especially when it seems that dirty details are half-left out of the frame, or are annoyingly semi-blocked. The Badass and Creepy is usually half-obstructed by architecture and emblematic fig leaves. This “semi-cover” technique also allows paintings that might have been too busy or crazy to “open up”, or at least to emanate an eerie calm.
Margaret Haines, 2008 (excerpt)
Héro du duende, huile sur toile, 72x90, 2003
L’indicible rencontré dans des moments de grâce de l’art. Sa mystérieuse signification semble indiquer, au delà des divergences culturelles, une facette de notre expérience habituellement passée sous silence. Un esprit qui, d’après la tradition populaire, habite certaines maisons en y causant quelques dérangements. Il s’agit d’une sorte d’esprit follet, de démon qui parcourt et intervient dans l’intimité des foyers. Un charme mystérieux et indicible, une présence magique ou surnaturelle qui, dans le premier cas est personnifiée, et qui dans le deuxième cas reste plus brute, moins définie.